Fraternity Foodie Podcast by Greek University

Welcome to our next episode of Making Hazing History with Mike and Hank! I'm Mike Ayalon, CEO of Greek University. Our co-host today is Hank Nuwer, the Author of Hazing: Destroying Young Lives, Wrongs of Passage, High School Hazing and The Hazing Reader. Hank was retired for 21 days from Franklin College, and now he's already back to work at Ball State . Today Hank and I explore some of the hazing...

We interview Greg Vogt, one of the newest speakers at Greek University. He has already been speaking for Active Minds, and now he's looking forward to sharing his story with your fraternity and sorority students as well. In his raw and transformational speeches, Greg unfolds his journey from living a typical childhood to battling depression, suicide attempts, and spending a year in a mental health...

With us today is Dr. Jason L. Meriwether, an experienced higher education leader with over two decades of service to public and private universities, including nine years of HBCU service. We talk to Jason about why he decided to attend the University of Louisville, what was special about Fisk University, where he is seeing success at Humboldt State University, his new book: Dismantling Hazing in G...

Welcome to episode # 66 of Fraternity Foodie! Today we have with us Alyssa Gorenberg, housing board member for Delta Phi Epsilon sorority, and an alum of the University of Michigan. We talk to Alyssa about why she chose the University of Michigan, why Delta Phi Epsilon and Hillel are so important to her, what is Moishe House, what makes the Delta-Eta chapter of Delta Phi Epsilon so successful, adv...

This was a live Zoom event that was recorded on July 7, 2020 to discuss race, equity, inclusion - and religion - in historically Jewish fraternities and sororities. For the first 45 minutes, we had a discussion for all attendees with the following panelists: Libby Anderson, CAE (Chief Executive Officer, Zeta Beta Tau), Laurence Bolotin, CAE, M.Ed (Executive Director, AJC Chicago), Alyssa Gorenberg...

Check out episode # 64 of Fraternity Foodie! We have with us a longtime friend of Greek University, Mel Lewis. Mel was born and raised in Middletown, New Jersey, a founding member of Alpha Omicron Pi at Ramapo College of New Jersey where she also went on to be Panhellenic Council President. She went on to earn a Master's Degree from Monmouth University in Higher Education, then worked as a higher...

This was a unique online event held on 6/11/2020 called "Anti-Racism and White Allies: What Comes Next?" in which we have a featured speaker for approximately 30 minutes, we then break into facilitated small group listening sessions for reflective dialogue, and finally we bring everyone back for a conclusion wrap up session. Only the general sessions were recorded, none of the small group listenin...

Welcome to episode # 62 of Fraternity Foodie, as we speak with Dr. Louis Profeta about his experiences in treating COVID-19 patients and his outlook for the future in terms of this virus. Dr. Profeta is a nationally recognized, award-winning writer, TED Talk speaker, and Emergency Physician at St. Vincent Hospital of Indianapolis, a level 1 trauma center. He has cared for more than 60,000 patients...

Check out episode # 61 of Fraternity Foodie as we interview Dr. Pietro Sasso, educator and critical scholar! We talk about his recently released books "Foundations, Research, and Assessment of Fraternities and Sororities" and "Supporting Fraternities and Sororities in the Contemporary Era". We ask why he chose Christopher Newport for his undergraduate experience, and what was attractive about Tau...

Welcome to episode # 60 of Fraternity Foodie! Jamie Devin Wilson is on a mission to end sexual violence, educate others active bystander intervention, and uplift the fraternity and sorority life experience. She cares deeply for the development and growth of not just college students but young professionals in the field of higher education. She is a wife, sister, sorority woman, survivor of sexual...

Welcome to our fifth special episode of Making Hazing History with Mike and Hank! Our co-host today is Hank Nuwer, the Author of Hazing: Destroying Young Lives, Wrongs of Passage, High School Hazing and The Hazing Reader, and retiring longtime Alpha Lambda Delta chapter adviser at Franklin College. Today we will explore three quite controversial, strange, and unsolved mystery hazing deaths - two o...

Check out episode #58 of Fraternity Foodie! Today we interview Harry Stone, Global Talent Acquisition for TikTok. Harry has worked for JP Morgan Chase, Google, WeWork, and now TikTok. He tells us what was special about being a founding father of Sigma Pi Fraternity at Florida State, how he made the jump from the mortgage business into recruiting, what the interview process was like at Google and w...

Welcome to our town hall on Racism in Context. Our objectives are to: 1. Educate professional staff on the challenges facing African-American students in the wake of the Ahmaud Arbery incident. 2. Place the Ahmaud Arbery incident in its proper context given the long history of vigilantism, over-policing, unfair targeting and unconscious bias towards African-Americans and other people of color. 3....

Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion died of injuries suffered in a hazing incident. Hank Nuwer and Mike Ayalon discuss the case, including reasons why it drew so much national attention, Florida's tough state hazing laws, the perpetrator's appeal, the effect on Robert's family, other band deaths, band scandals, studies done on band hazing, and the questions you should be asking if yo...

Welcome to episode # 55 of Fraternity Foodie! Today we're talking about career choices with Ellen Howell and Debbie Radish-Respess. These choices are something today's undergraduate students might be struggling with, but also mid-career employees who might be feeling stressed or experiencing burnout. How do we know we are on the right career path? What is emotional intelligence? What is servant le...

Hank Nuwer has written two different versions of a play about a young man who dies in an alcohol-fueled initiation. In one version the youth is a fraternity pledge. In this play, "Death of a Rookie," it is a freshman ballplayer who perishes. Many of the lines in the play come from Hank's interviews with families who lost a son in a hazing incident. This play was first acted by Hank Nuwer after he...

Check out episode # 53 with Dean Seneca. Dean is a recognized expert in health sciences and a global advocate for the under-served through community participation, building infrastructure in epidemiology, and leading through diplomatic communication. Dean worked as a Senior Health Scientist for the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) for over 18 years. He supports Tribal communities in...

Welcome to our third special episode of Making Hazing History with Mike and Hank, and this episode is all about hazing in athletics. Our co-host each Sunday is Hank Nuwer, the Author of Hazing: Destroying Young Lives, Wrongs of Passage, High School Hazing and The Hazing Reader, and retiring longtime Alpha Lambda Delta chapter adviser at Franklin College. Hank Nuwer discusses who was the first well...

Check out episode # 51 of Fraternity Foodie! We interview Claire Petrie, Talent Acquisition and HR Pro currently creating the talent acquisition vision, strategy and process at a company called Unifrax! We talk about why she chose the University at Buffalo for her undergraduate degree, why she loves to find the perfect match between people and companies, what Unifrax does, why social media is impo...

Welcome to the second installment of Making Hazing History with Mike & Hank. Today we are talking about first-year hazing taken to a dangerous extreme. Specifically, we are tackling the unsolved mystery of Henrietta Jackson's death. Hank Nuwer discusses what is class hazing, examples of these types of tragedies, the particulars on the Henrietta Jackson death, how Mark Twain was connected to this s...

Check out our town hall as we talk about supporting first generation college students! Our panelists include Victor Benlice, a First-Gen College Grad with an interesting story full of grit, inspiration, and resilience. Victor went from an unknown first-gen student from Elizabeth, NJ to Double VP of Programming & Public Relations for Kean University's Greek Senate. The following year as President o...

Check out our Town Hall on Leveraging the Power of LinkedIn! Today we are speaking with Debra Jason. She is a professional marketing speaker, author, direct response copywriter and multi-faceted marketing mentor, Debra Jason started her entrepreneurial journey when she opened her doors for business as a writer in 1989. Since then Debra has personally written thousands upon thousands of words for h...

Welcome to a new segment here at Greek University. We decided to call this "Making Hazing History with Mike & Hank". Today we talk about the first hazing death in a fraternity, Mortimer Leggett, in 1873. Hank Nuwer has been described as one of the nation's foremost authority on hazing. We thought it would be helpful for our audience to learn more about the history of hazing in a video and audio fo...

Check out Fraternity Foodie episode # 46 where I interview the Founder and CEO of Andrew Hudson's Jobs List, none other than Andrew Hudson himself. Andrew Hudson's Jobs List has been Colorado's premiere job board for 20 years. Started in 1998 with a few hundred followers, today, more than 35,000 subscribers receive the weekly updates and hundreds of thousands more visit AH Jobs List each month. An...

Check out episode # 45 of Fraternity Foodie with our guest, Ray Begovich. Ray has a Doctorate in Education from Ball State University, and before joining the Franklin College faculty, Ray was Vice President of a public relations agency serving nonprofit and business clients. Ray wrote a chapter called "Public Relations for Fraternities in Crisis" in Hank Nuwer's book, so Hank and I decided we woul...